Art & Culture

When Fame is Mere Compensation

Subhra Mazumdar

The booming Indian art scene has left many artists licking their wounds. With India yet to make rules on resale royalty, they can claim nothing of the astronomical sums their signed works are fetching

Real Comedy Is Coming

Arun Janardhan

For some of us who cannot laugh at Indian TV humour, there is good news. Stand-up comics are coming

All These Paintings I Do for My Kids

Manju Sara Rajan

MF Husain, on self-imposed exile in Dubai, is doing well, thank you. Yes, he is still painting, but you are not in the picture. The canvases are for him and his children

Remembering Tyeb Mehta

Avantika Bhuyan

Arun Vadehra of Vadehra Art Gallery picks five landmark paintings which defined the late Tyeb Mehta’s art

Did You Say Poetry Is a Bore?

Avantika Bhuyan

Maybe no more. It’s leaving its stuffy image behind as performance poets jump onto stage and get the crowd high on their rhythm

It Don’t Matter If You’re Branded

Nirmal Bhattacharjee

Michael Jackson was the last pop star who mattered to you, me and everyone. At the end, his voice and words shall live on for much longer than anything he was slapped with

A World Away from Venice

Riyas Komu

A day before the art biennale, artist Riyas Komu escaped to the hills. Two years ago, his paintings were at the world’s biggest art extravaganza. This year, he just wanted to get away, anywhere but Venice

Unforgettables

Shoumendu Mukerjee

Dylan, Morrison, the Beatles refuse to go out of our heads. Unlike techno, funk or whatever it was we heard yesterday

Play It Again

Kamla Bhatt

Hours before his death, sarode maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan couldn’t resist giving his last music lessons

Death of Ms Supermodel

Kabeer Sharma

Nobody could fully explain why she was special, but she was. Once. It was clear she was more than just a pretty face. Alas, that was the last we saw of her. A report from her funeral